TRAI Chairman Rahul Khullar said in an Open House Discussion on 12 September 2013 at Delhi that any stakeholder wanting to give views in writing may do so within a week.
All Stakeholders have been given a period of one week to give comments they may have on the regulations relating to them issued earlier by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Around 200 persons representing all stakeholders were present at the meeting, and put forth their views. While a majority said there was need for regulations, many felt that TRAI needed to fine-tune the regulations. MediaPro CEO Arun Kapoor, Dish TV’s Jawahar Goel, legal representatives of Airtel, Reliance, IndiaCast, apart from cable operators such as Roop Sharma, President, COFI, Vicki Choudhary, Money Oberoi were present at the open house.
TRAI Advisers N Parameswaran and Wasi Ahmed and other senior officials also present in the house.
The discussions were frank and free and a final view would be taken after written representations are received.
Khullar says that there are three or four very important observations. The first is that aggregated bouquets of channels owned by rival bouquets creates a monopoly situation which is not a healthy one and needs to be addressed. Second: he recognised that the networks like Star, Zee, Sun, Network18 own channels across several corporate entities as licence holders and this needs to be considered. Third: smaller broadcasters and networks could face problems in distribution across the vast Indian cable TV landscape and this also should be borne in mind. Finally, he acknowledged that aggregation can help keep prices in check on account of bulk discounting.”
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/3200-trai-open-house-discussion-stakeholders-given-another-week-to-respond.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/3200-trai-open-house-discussion-stakeholders-given-another-week-to-respond.html
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